On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 09:00 -0400, Zabb65 wrote: > I'm looking to see if there is any interest in adding AR5513 support > to the ath5k HAL. I have one of the devices myself and would love to > add support to the HAL for this device(It's the only missing one, no?)
I have such device, D-Link DWL-G650M (rev A1, with a green label). I tried to add support for it to ath9k, but gave up soon after realizing that the card needs a lot of code from ath5k. > It appears that all of the tx queues and rx queues behave > properly(fill and drain like normal), but nothing is getting to the > mac/network layer. Which leads me to believe that the buffers may be > wrapped in some protocol(The AR5005VL is designed for embedded devices > such as DVR boxes and streaming media. It has a full MIPS32 R3000(I > think?) cpu and likely its own firmware/operating system) It's a MIMO card, so you might need to initialize some additional parameters. You can see txChainCtrl and rxChainCtrl in the driver. There are also references to rxChainCtrl in net5513.inf. > So in adding support, the following things will likely have to be > done: change the data type of registers from u16 to u32(the device > makes use of a few registers that require it.), Do you mean ath5k_hw_reg_read() and ath5k_hw_reg_write()? It may be a good idea to do it regardless of AR5513 support. Changing u16 to u32 decreases the module size (stripped) by 224 bytes on x86_64 and I think it should speed up the code as well, as it avoids instructions to limit the register value to 16 bits. > fill in > missing/incorrect eeprom reading functions, correct eeprom reading > functions for eeprom version 0x4009(the cards A band data doesn't > appear to be properly detected), add the eeprom shim to read eeprom > for the specific card, work out why TX/RX isn't working properly, > anything else involved with why TX/RX doesn't work. > > Obviously I'm going to have to do a lot of that myself, as I don't > know of anyone else who has one of the cards, but in the event that I > am legally unable to produce patches or code, I'm fully willing to > document my findings to allow somebody else to write the required > code, in the event there is interest in this. I cannot promise any involvement other than testing the code. I can donate my card to whoever is seriously interested doing in the code development. Actually, DWL-G650M can be bought on eBay for $15 with shipping. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
